what's the point of the annon feature?

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I asked an embarrassing question seeing all the anon questions, I thought "well they must ask about anon after you hit submit" but once I did my profile was RIGHT there and by the time I hit "make anonymous" I already had 4 answers! What's worse, they took away the option to delete questions, so even though I was able to hit anon, one person still called me "AJ", the name I had in my profile at the time, in their response. What is the point of this feature when most of the people who see the question see it within seconds of it posting?

Update:

what I mean is, what's the point of having it if people still see you in those first few moments before you can even hit anon? I understand the need for anon. But what I'm saying is, it doesn't work!

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We know that there are some questions that we would rather ask and some answers we’d rather give privately. This is why we have launched the option to make your question or answer anonymous.

With this change, you can now choose to “hide” your profile from appearing next to the content after posting your question or answer. To make your question or answer anonymous, simply click “edit” and select the “make anonymous” option.

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what's the point of the annon feature?

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